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Each year the United States Sentencing Commission releases statistics on federal crimes which often are used by the Commission when the Commission drafts new guidelines or amends the current United States Sentencing Guidelines.The 2013 statistics were recently released.The statistics are categorized using factors such as primary offenses, sentencing information, types of crime, states, etc.According to the Commission, the number of total federal criminal offenses committed (based on convictions only) in the United States in 2012 was 84,173 and in 2013 was 80,035.Further highlights include:

·The number of Fraud offenses in 2012 was 8,634, 10.3% of total crimes. In 2013, fraud cases made up 7,840 of the offenses, totaling only 9.8% of all crimes.

·Embezzlement offenses in 2012 were 326, or 0.4% of total crimes. In 2013, embezzlement offenses rose to 341, though the percentage of all crimes remained at 0.4%.

·Money Laundering crimes in 2012 made up 822 of all offenses, or 1% of all crimes, while in 2013, the number of money laundering crimes rose to 829, again still 1% of all crimes.

·There were 876 forgery offenses in 2012, which made up 1% of total offenses. In 2013, forgeryoffenses decreased to 731, making up only 0.9% of the total number of crimes.

·There were 2,014 Child Pornography offenses in 2012, which made up 2.4% of all convictions. In 2013, the number of child pornography offenses decreased slightly to 1,922, still 2.4% of total crimes.

Overall offenders in each primary offense category in 2013 are as follows:

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“The death penalty is a lie, a misguided mistake born of anger and frustration. Capital punishment has become a perverse monument to inequality, to how some lives matter and others do not. It is a violent example of how we protect and value the rich and abandon and devalue the poor. The death penalty is a grim, disturbing shadow formed by the legacy of racial apartheid and bias against the poor that condemns the disfavored among us, but corrupts us all. It’s the perverse symbol elected officials use to strengthen their ‘tough on crime’ reputations and distract us from confronting the causes of violence. It is finally the enemy of grace, redemption and all of us who recognize that each person is more than their worse act.”
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